I don't know the current situation at Morgan Stanley (I have been at Google since 2009), but I concur with Phil's assessment, and would be happy to sign off on a maintainer change.
The module contains a lot of effort by Phil and me, and it'd be a terrible waste to let it rot. Hildo On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Phillip Moore <w.phillip.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > <sigh> > > This is very sad, and as the original author of the code, I would like to > apologize on behalf of those who have inherited in from me. Except that I > have *NO* idea who that is. I wrote and owned this code from 1998 to 2002. > Hildo also left the project and Morgan Stanley a few years later, and the > engineering team that manages the MQSeries infrastructure Hildo and I > designed and deployed are the ones responsible for the CPAN distro now. > That team *was* pretty good, but they entire team quit or changed projects > in 2012, which explains the final release date. > > Now, I am going to be characteristically blunt here: all the good engineers > are gone from that team, and I don't think they are giving ANY priority to > maintaining the CPAN distribution, because none of them have any clue how. > If you have the skills and the interest in taking this over, I would be more > than happy to help broker getting the ownership transferred. > > If push comes to shove, I am pretty sure that if Hildo and I endorsed it, > the CPAN maintainers would make the change. I have followed the DBIC > ownership debacle from a distance, and I think that was handled extremely > professionally by David Golden, for example. Now, I honestly think that > the team in question is so deep underwater with everything we created (that > infrastructure and the management application we built are perhaps the most > successful work of my career, and they still use it), that they will most > likely be thrilled to give this up. > > Anyway, if it is not obvious, please keep this discussion entirely > confidential for now. I am putting the priorities of the open source > community before those of my employers here, and so taking a bit of > political risk by doing so. I am, for lack of clearly better judgment, > working at MS again right now, so I would appreciate you NOT sharing this > discussion publicly until it is appropriate to do so. This is also why I > am in the perfect spot to broker the ownership change. > > I am going to proactively reach out to Golden, and inquire about the process > here, as I don't think you will ever see another release if we don't, so I > will bring him into this discussion as well. Please give me about a week > to get the internal feedback on this. > > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi Thorsten, >> >> I'd like to adopt the MQSeries module. >> >> A year ago I've uploaded a patch (bug id 113894), but nothing happened. >> Then I've sent a mail to mqser...@cpan.org, but received a bounce mail (user >> unknown) from Morgan Stanley's mail server. Now I have found another issue >> and sent a mail to this address again, but still the same bounce mail. The >> module has open bug reports that are 8 years old. And the last release was >> built in 2012. >> >> Now I have requested a PAUSE account and forked the read-only repo mirror >> on github (gitpan/MQSeries) into my own account (thorstenhirsch/MQSeries) in >> order to continue development. >> >> What are the next steps? >> >> >> The README for the distribution lists Hildo Biersma and W Phillip Moore, >> so they may know how you can get in touch with the current maintainer, or >> get co-maint permission. They’ve both got PAUSE accounts, so I’ve copied >> them on this email. >> >> Hildo & Phillip, do you know the status of this module, and who is the >> right person to decide if Thorsten can have co-maint? >> >> Cheers, >> Neil >> >
